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The Real Thing: POW Alex Lees (right) in Stalag Luft III. "I only played a small part.  I did my bit, that's the main thing." If, like me, The Great Escape is in your pantheon of All Time Coolest Movies, you will be saddened to learn of the death of Alex Lees on 22...

Rep. Brad Miller is chairing ill-attended hearings on oversight of the $787 billion stimulus. Reports The Washington Times: "These hearings are titled 'follow the money' after the character in the movie - and the book - 'All the President's Men,' " Mr. Miller said....

"Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce." -- Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Napoleon (1851) Most of what Marx said has...

A standing room only crowd was at Barnes & Noble in Prescott Arizona for a book signing by Ed Nixon, the youngest brother of RN. In Friday's addition of the local paper, the Daily Courier; Ed Nixon said that he decided to include Prescott in his book tour as a...

From Bethesda, Maryland tonight comes the news that Jack Kemp, whose career took him from football triumphs with the Buffalo Bills in the 1960s to a highly productive House career in the 1980s to his vice-presidential candidacy alongside Bob Dole in 1996, has died of...

TNN reader Tom van Oosterom recently emailed our master of ceremonies Jonathan Movroydis after he and his wife saw the Frost/Nixon DVD, and observed that (comments in brackets are mine): [W]atching the DVD extras...one historical fact seems to have passed [up] by Ron...

Tomorrow marks the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby, celebrated around the world (except maybe in England, where they mean something else entirely when they speak of "the Derby") as the "greatest two minutes in sports."  Having grown up in the Louisville area, I...

  George Washington's first inauguration took place 220 years ago today* on the balcony of the Senate Chamber in Federal Hall in New York City.  His Inaugural Address was delivered to a joint session of Congress in the Senate Chamber. The First Inaugural Address of...

Here is a Bill Safire classic from the New York Times.